VA - Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California, 1980-1992 (2025) (Hi-Res)
VA - Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California, 1980-1992 (2025) (Hi-Res)
FLAC (tracks) 24bit-44.1kHz - 472 MB
46:18 | Electronic, Dream Pop, Alternative | Label: House Rules
FLAC (tracks) 24bit-44.1kHz - 472 MB
46:18 | Electronic, Dream Pop, Alternative | Label: House Rules
Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California (1980-1992) assembles little-known sounds from California’s metaphysical underground. Each recording is stylistically different—dream pop, guitar soli, fourth world, avant-electronic—but they are held together by a regional ethos of the “visionary.” This is music that sees through the mind’s eye and conjures new worlds. Some people say that California is where “the nuts stop rolling”—where those too eccentric to fit in elsewhere often find themselves. What was meant pejoratively is easily reclaimed as a celebration of the free-thinking and the freely-freaking. Until the turn of the millennium, all manner of seekers rolled westward until they hit the pacific. Stationed along this edge, music was a way to roll still further, imagining territories unencountered and wavelengths as yet unheard.
Lost Coast is a commemoration of the people who made these journeys and a resurrection of recordings they made little effort to broadcast. While some pieces were originally released with modest distribution, others were only shared among friends or never shared at all. All tracks were found on cassettes in flea markets, barn sales, rural thrift stores, and even stranger places—outside a gem and mineral shop, for example, and on the ranch of a retired mescaline dealer.
Regardless of their obscurity, these recordings are eminently listenable. California, after all, is a place where the strange and the pleasurable are frequent bedfellows.
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released May 29, 2025
Tracklist
1. Timothy Gray - It's Raining (03:59)
2. Stephen Ross & David Mason - Untitled (04:50)
3. Planetary Peace - Song Without Words (04:34)
4. Lee Underwood - Quietude Oasis (03:49)
5. Terry Garthwaite - Sacred Within (05:30)
6. Martin & Scott - African Sweet Fantasy (02:36)
7. Donald Eggers - Full Moon (06:45)
8. Clay Play - Ancestress (03:36)
9. Darrell DeVore - Untitled (06:45)
10. Martin Espino - Mexicayotl (03:54)
foobar2000 2.0 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2025-05-30 02:25:42
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Analyzed: Clay Play / Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California, 1980–1992 (1)
Darrell DeVore / Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California, 1980–1992 (2)
Donald Eggers / Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California, 1980–1992 (3)
Lee Underwood / Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California, 1980–1992 (4)
Martin & Scott / Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California, 1980–1992 (5)
Martin Espino / Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California, 1980–1992 (6)
Planetary Peace / Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California, 1980–1992 (7)
Stephen Ross & David Mason / Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California, 1980–1992 (8)
Terry Garthwaite / Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California, 1980–1992 (9)
Timothy Gray / Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California, 1980–1992 (10)
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR7 -1.02 dB -11.06 dB 3:36 08-Ancestress
DR7 -1.04 dB -11.62 dB 6:45 09-Untitled
DR7 -1.03 dB -10.29 dB 6:45 07-Full Moon
DR7 -0.95 dB -11.82 dB 3:49 04-Quietude Oasis
DR5 -1.04 dB -10.23 dB 2:36 06-African Sweet Fantasy
DR8 -0.98 dB -12.58 dB 3:54 10-Mexicayotl
DR6 -0.87 dB -8.28 dB 4:34 03-Song Without Words
DR7 -1.01 dB -10.18 dB 4:50 02-Untitled
DR7 -0.95 dB -9.99 dB 5:30 05-Sacred Within
DR8 -0.94 dB -10.91 dB 3:59 01-It's Raining
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Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR7
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 1605 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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log date: 2025-05-30 02:25:42
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Analyzed: Clay Play / Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California, 1980–1992 (1)
Darrell DeVore / Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California, 1980–1992 (2)
Donald Eggers / Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California, 1980–1992 (3)
Lee Underwood / Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California, 1980–1992 (4)
Martin & Scott / Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California, 1980–1992 (5)
Martin Espino / Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California, 1980–1992 (6)
Planetary Peace / Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California, 1980–1992 (7)
Stephen Ross & David Mason / Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California, 1980–1992 (8)
Terry Garthwaite / Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California, 1980–1992 (9)
Timothy Gray / Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California, 1980–1992 (10)
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR7 -1.02 dB -11.06 dB 3:36 08-Ancestress
DR7 -1.04 dB -11.62 dB 6:45 09-Untitled
DR7 -1.03 dB -10.29 dB 6:45 07-Full Moon
DR7 -0.95 dB -11.82 dB 3:49 04-Quietude Oasis
DR5 -1.04 dB -10.23 dB 2:36 06-African Sweet Fantasy
DR8 -0.98 dB -12.58 dB 3:54 10-Mexicayotl
DR6 -0.87 dB -8.28 dB 4:34 03-Song Without Words
DR7 -1.01 dB -10.18 dB 4:50 02-Untitled
DR7 -0.95 dB -9.99 dB 5:30 05-Sacred Within
DR8 -0.94 dB -10.91 dB 3:59 01-It's Raining
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Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR7
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 1605 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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